adminOliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter
LIQUID Telecom Zambia has embarked on a $5 million optic fibre project linking Victoria Falls-Livingstone and Lusaka to provide retail and wholesale customers along the route with high-speed broadband connectivity.
The estimated cost for the 500-kilometre fibre link build and terminal equipment is $5 million.
“The new link will start in Lusaka, transiting through eight southern circuit towns, including Kafue, Mazabuka, Monze, Choma and Kalomo, terminating at Victoria Falls,” said the company.
CEC Liquid Telecom Zambia is a joint venture between the Liquid Telecom Group and Copperbelt Energy Corporation PLC (CEC), a Zambian power transmission, distributing and generating company.
The Lusaka-Livingstone-Victoria Falls link is expected to be complete by mid-year after which the firm would expand the project to the border towns of Kazungula and Sesheke to link with Namibia and Botswana.
It is hoped that the Lusaka–Livingstone-Victoria Falls link will provide additional capacity, increased redundancy and route diversity and will cement CEC Liquid Telecom Zambia’s position as the country’s most reliable and consistent broadband provider.
At Victoria Falls, it said the new link would interconnect with the Liquid Telecom group’s fibre network in Zimbabwe providing the company with its third route into and out of Zambia.
International access was through the multi-award-winning pan-African fibre and satellite networks of The Liquid Telecom Group, which connect to five different sea cables – WACS, EASSY, SEACOM, SAT3 and TEAMs.
CEC Liquid Telecom Zambia managing director Andrew Kapula was quoted as saying, “the Southern part of Zambia along the economic zone from Lusaka via transit towns to Livingstone has lagged behind in terms of access to quality information communication technology services. Our new fibre link will provide much needed capacity in the area. We’re investing heavily in Zambia as part of our goal to build Africa’s digital future. We believe in the power of connectivity to transform lives and our goal is to connect as many people in Africa as possible”.
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